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The Official Not the Footy Show BlogSat, 04 Apr 2015 08:35:32 +0000hourly1http://wordpress.com/Comment on The Blame Game by notthefootyshowhttps://notthefootyshow.wordpress.com/2015/04/02/the-blame-game-2/#comment-26036
Sat, 04 Apr 2015 08:35:32 +0000http://notthefootyshow.com/?p=5829#comment-26036Craig, very true, my apologies for not explaining the new ownership issue! Thank you for the clarification.
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Fri, 03 Apr 2015 03:14:08 +0000http://notthefootyshow.com/?p=5829#comment-26026Rangers were not relegate from the Scottish Priemer league, they went into administration then liquidation Sevco, trading as Rangers International Football Club applied to take the place of the now dead Rangers Football Club but were denied entry, they subsequently joined the SFL and started in the 3 Division.
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Thu, 02 Apr 2015 07:45:31 +0000http://notthefootyshow.com/?p=5829#comment-26016Tony Sage needs to exit once and for all and take all his back room yes men with him. The best punishment would be the FFA to revoke his licence. They did it Clive Palmer so why not do it to Sage. He has been a cancer on the Perth sporting landscape and the A-League. Time to cut him out.
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Thu, 02 Apr 2015 07:41:36 +0000http://notthefootyshow.com/?p=5829#comment-26015Ryan, thanks as always for your comment and always welcome differing opinions.

Having commentated on the Chinese League the standard is incredibly poor and there are only three to four teams who are really competitive. The only reason players go to China is because the clubs need the transfer fee, so they off load a good player in the A-League. The player too is on good money but such a move is not good for their career, but good for their post career.

The original aim of the marquee was as stated, but it has now changed. I hear what you are saying that you want these players to play here, but trust me they would not go to a 2nd Division club, -where in the main I believe the standard is better than the A-league – because they would not get close to earning anywhere near what they are currently earning in Australia. Some would not even make it into the teams at that level.

I do not believe that there should be marquee Australian players at all. I also believe the criteria for overseas marquee players should be much more stringent. These need to be players who still can perform at this level.

Very valid point re Rukavstya.

Dwayne, thank you for your comment too.

The support Tony Sage still has is baffling. As you say maybe it is those who believe that no one would pick up the licence in WA. I know of a couple of interested parties but they will not pay to take it off the current owner. As you and Ryan say he is the common denominator in all the pain. No coach has been given a decent run in the job since he took over and that in itself is destabilising.

He obviously does not care what the fans think or he would not continue the way he has. However if sponsors started to pull away saying that the association with the Glory brand was damaging to them then maybe we will start to see a different approach.

Let us hope change is fast in this instant.

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Thu, 02 Apr 2015 06:21:48 +0000http://notthefootyshow.com/?p=5829#comment-26014Sage still has the backing of a large contingent of fans who buy into his ‘if I don’t own the club it will fold’ bollocks that he trots out every time he gets called to account over his mistakes. This club is heading in one of two directions:
1) Attendances/members drop off with more and more false dawns and scandals to the point where it is no longer viable to run a club out of Perth (helped by Sage publicly complaining at every opportunity about how little money he makes – salting the earth for any other prospective owners). We go the way of Newcastle Jets, going further and further into the mire as our owner bleeds the club dry.
2) Sage hands back the license, the club endures another 1-2 years of pain and hardship under FFA ownership until a new owner is found and things start to improve again.
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Thu, 02 Apr 2015 05:31:34 +0000http://notthefootyshow.com/?p=5829#comment-26012I agree with your overall message about the article but I can not agree with your assessment on what a marquee should be. For clarification, this is referring to the AUSTRALIAN marquee position.

Saying it should only be there to bring fans through the turnstile is highly subjective metric but is quite limited in scope. Who would this apply to with Aussies playing right now? None of them bar Cahill are in a practical position to be marquees that fit this definition. Guys like Milligan and Spiranovic are Socceroos but I’ve never heard anyone call them the reason for an increase in attendances.

It is there to get Australians, specifically those that would otherwise be overseas, to clubs that are in Australia. If it means the likes of Thwaite or McKay are here instead of playing in China or fourth division England then I am all for it. One of those guys is in the Socceroos squad and the other is on the outside, I don’t think their caliber should be called into question.

And the end of the day, it allows 9/10 top Aussie players in the league that may not have been there to begin. I’m all for it.

Back to Glory, don’t forget the club were trying to get Rukavytsya for more than WSW were paying before any of this marquee musical chairs was happening. Pretty sure Brewer said somewhere that the only way that would have happened is for them to have released a player. No news of that at the time.

I don’t have any sympathy for Brewer, I think he’s been quite duplicitous from the start but he’s not the guy that hired another CEO from his mining company to run PGFC, so he should not be the only one to fall on his sword. There’s only one person who has been the common denominator in all the problems Glory have had this last 5 seasons:

Sage.

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Thu, 02 Apr 2015 02:21:53 +0000http://notthefootyshow.com/?p=5829#comment-26005Not sure there will be many fans left if Glory is found guilty.
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Wed, 01 Apr 2015 11:14:02 +0000http://notthefootyshow.com/?p=5822#comment-25994Of course they’re guilty. This decision is just that ASADA didn’t have enough evidence of their guilt to appease the >AFL< tribunal. Go figure.
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Wed, 01 Apr 2015 01:27:06 +0000http://notthefootyshow.com/?p=5824#comment-25988Ashley very brave to write such a piece when people are bound to be very emotional about such a memorial. I have to say I agree that the Government should not contribute a cent. If the Football community wants a statue let them find the money. I can’t help feeling that the whole statue idea is in fact more about certain individuals egos rather than Dylan; they look to try and make themselves ‘heroes’ at his expense. If one is erected it should be at Stirling and not at NIB.

As you imply with a little more thought there must be ways in which the Foundation can make a bigger impact with young men.

I do pray that the FFA and Perth Glory do not dedicate yet another round of the A_league to a cause like this. It is losing all meaning as each week we hear that the round or the fixture is dedicated to some charity. It smacks of the FFA and the club clutching at straws to try and pull spectators into the games. It is sheer tokenism and we do not want to desecrate the memory of this young man by commercial tokenism.

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Tue, 31 Mar 2015 05:55:53 +0000http://notthefootyshow.com/?p=5822#comment-25979Personally believe guilty as hell, and as you say because it is AFL swept under the carpet and all the AFL puppets like every presenter at the ABC will praise the sport for sorting it out. It is not the Number 1 sport in Australia, Football, Netball and Cricket are all ahead on every level, so lets stop pretending! Would love one of these to start using that as a tag line – Australia’s number one sport! That would shut AFL up, as then they would have to actually justify why another code cannot use that term, and they would have to be honest re participation numbers.
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